Omega Halo: Difference between revisions

Unlike the six rings of the final Halo Array, Omega Halo was manufactured at the [[greater Ark]] instead of [[Installation 00]].<ref name="last"/> Like the other Halos built at the greater Ark, Omega Halo's main weapon was designed to fire directed pulses as opposed to the omnidirectional effects of the newer Halos.<ref name="s314">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 314''</ref> Omega Halo was the last 30,000 kilometer Halo to be built. By the last year of the [[Forerunner-Flood war]], all but one of its counterparts had been destroyed either during the [[Fate of Maethrillian|assault on the Capital world]] or by [[Flood]]/[[Precursor]] forces in the intervening years;<ref name="last"/><ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 234''</ref> Installation 07 had been severely damaged, reduced in size, and repurposed alongside the smaller, final Array.<ref>'''[[Halo: Primordium]]''', ''page 374''</ref><ref name="last"/><ref name="s314"/> Omega Halo itself retreated from the fall of the Capital through a [[slipspace portal]], the only one of the two Halos that tried to make the transit and survived.<ref>'''[[Halo: Cryptum]]'''</ref>

As the battle raged, the Ur-Didact took his [[Mantle's Approach|personal ship]] to the surface of Omega Halo. There, he used a [[Composer]] to convert the relocated human population, (numbering in the hundreds of thousands), into digital forms.<ref name="s262">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 262-264''</ref> He then returned to the [[Promethean]]s' primary [[shield world]], [[Requiem]], where he implanted the essences into [[Promethean Knight]]s.<ref name="Terminal">'''Halo 4''', [[Terminal/Halo 4|''Terminal Six'']]</ref><ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 284-285''</ref> The Librarian, a former companion of the Ur-Didact; and [[343 Guilty Spark|Chakas]], a monitor; were unable to stop this quasi-genocide;<ref name="s262"/>however they managed to recover a relative handful of live specimens and DNA samples, which were immediately transferred to the [[Installation 00|lesser Ark]].<ref name="s304">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 304-305''</ref><ref>'''[[Halo: Rebirth]]'''</ref>